Wear Discussion

3 weeks ago

Alright so this is where things get difficult lol. Right now the deck has some semblance of agro and control but its currently being bogged down by things that don’t contribute anything or enough to warrant their spot. I’m going to suggest a lot of cuts and for each one I’ll offer a decent replacement that will not only make all of our lives miserable but also contribute to making the deck far more resilient and difficult to stop.
Creatures to cut

and most of the other combos will win the game your next turn (no matter how many opponents are alive)

When building this deck i actually looked at quite a lot of other breya decks and playtested them a lot.
So I understand your points and know that cards like
Demonic Tutor
and
Enlightened Tutor
are must haves in more competitive lists.
I just prefer diversity over consistency and don't want to spent that much money
on cards i don't enjoy playing.

1 month ago

Lol this deck looks like an early version of my breya deck. So I am going to comment/make advise from that point of view. I don't know what your meta is like and I don't know if you are trying to be super competitive or not, because it seems to me that this is a competitive casual deck.

The 2 biggest vulnerabilities of this deck are that:

You are unable to effectively kill your opponents quickly, efficiently, and most importantly all at once. Only one or two of your combos can actually kill every opponent the moment it touches the board, namely
Nim Deathmantle
+ KCI or ashnod + Breya. The rest of the combos/wincons are fluff, because you can't seriously expect that the opponents are going to sit there and let you kill them one by one. So instead of having tons of combos, instead substitute for only a couple of combos and fill the void with cards like
Demonic Tutor
Enlightened Tutor
Mystical Tutor
and the rest of the space with protection/interaction with your oppenents which leads me to my next point.

You have little to no ability to interact with your opponents. Cards like
Null Rod
or
Stony Silence
are hilariously powerful against you. If one of these is on the battlefield, then you literally only have 2 cards in your entire deck to deal with it namely
Vandalblast
and only for
Null Rod
the more uncommon of the 2. Also have you ever played a game against anyone with counterspells? it will make you miserable. You need to play cards like
Swan Song
Wear
Swords to Plowshares
and any number of other interactive cards should be considered.

Your deck's CMC is also way too high. One of the worst feelings that you can have in a game is watching another person combo off and you have only played a land or 2. Add every
Talisman of Indulgence
type of mana rock that you can.

It might be good for you to look at more competitive EDH decks and built towards it. There is also a different mindset that those deck have than you have and it will totally confuse you as it did me. If you look at my Breya deck...(its eggs kind of)... it is a little confusing(sorry) and its purpose is to delay opponents who would win uninterupted turns 3/4/5 with spellbombs/other interaction so that I can combo on turns 5/6. Ignore the lack of lands I just happen to be a person who never gets mana screwed.

3 months ago

Deck idea is really sweet, I don't think I've seen one like this before. I'm not quite sure how you generally win the game, are creature beats usually enough? That's very possible, I'd have to see the deck play out.

Skewer the Critics
is hilarious, but again, it requires constant damage, like burn, and Mardu can’t always guarantee that.

Hope this helps! Unfortunately, no good techs. A Facebook group and I have taken out
Blood Moon
in favor of
Path to Exile
. It helps against all these super fast creature aggro decks that are storming the meta.

4 months ago

Daedalus19876 The version I’m running only have a few differences but that’s mainly because I don’t have some of the cards available right now. I’m running
Tajic, Legion's Edge
in place of recruiter of the guard for now. I will say his ability to save your board on an Avacyn transformation has been helpful at times. Being able to save my mother of tunes or selfless spirit for a later activation has saved me a few times already.

Instead of
Elspeth, Knight-Errant
I’m running
Nahiri, the Harbinger
partly because I don’t have that Elspeth yet lol but also because I don’t have another
Wheel of Fortune
for her right now. The looting has helped and my playgroup never seems overly concerned with her so the few time she I’ve gotten her out the tutor has been helpful as well.

I did slot in a bit more removal as well. Mainly because my meta is creature heavy and various voltron decks are already running around that she has to compete with.
Fight to the Death
has saved me twice now against a Palladia that still had hexproof. Nice to flash in Avacyn to block and use that to kill that monster while she’s still indestructible lol. Also running
Wear
and
Shatterstorm
because against my more competitive opponents there is almost always something problematic to deal with.

Artifacts I’m missing some the equips and zero drop mana rocks like
Mana Crypt
and
Mana Vault
. I do have an
Umezawa's Jitte
on the way so that’ll help. I like
Hero's Blade
as its auto equip trigger has meant the difference between simply blocking with a flashed in Avacyn and killing their creature and turning the tide completely. Also running
Fellwar Stone
because there is almost always white or red at the table. And
Mox Opal
because there’s a lot of artifacts so it’s online more often than not.

Don’t know if any of that will help with ideas per say but I’ll definitely be slotting in those two cards from the new set I mentioned before. Tajic and shatterstorm are currently my choices to swap out but I’m undecided as yet.

4 months ago

5 months ago

Unless you just have the lying around doing nothing, 4 Cavern of Souls is probably too many. Remember, if you get these in your opening hand and need to use removal, you can't because it only produces colorless. I run 2 in my Naya angels deck (shameless plug: Angels of Paradise).

Wear occurrence in decks from the last year

Modern:

All decks: 0.0%

Commander / EDH:

All decks: 0.01%

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